Comments on: Announcing the FLORA, Adafruit’s wearable electronics platform and accessorieshttps://blog.adafruit.com/2012/01/20/announcing-the-flora-adafruits-wearable-electronics-platform-and-accessories/
electronics, open source hardware, hacking and more...Tue, 03 Mar 2015 00:44:22 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.1By: NullRegisterhttps://blog.adafruit.com/2012/01/20/announcing-the-flora-adafruits-wearable-electronics-platform-and-accessories/comment-page-1/#comment-27517
Sun, 29 Jan 2012 16:44:15 +0000http://www.adafruit.com/blog/2012/01/20/announcing-the-flora-adafruits-wearable-electronics-platform-and-accessories/#comment-27517Will this be compatible with the LEDs and sensors from the Lilypad kits? It would be nice to reuse those.
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Tue, 24 Jan 2012 19:03:15 +0000http://www.adafruit.com/blog/2012/01/20/announcing-the-flora-adafruits-wearable-electronics-platform-and-accessories/#comment-27376awesome! looking forward to the product release
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Mon, 23 Jan 2012 16:08:18 +0000http://www.adafruit.com/blog/2012/01/20/announcing-the-flora-adafruits-wearable-electronics-platform-and-accessories/#comment-27322Excellent idea! I prob. missed it, but will the UART pins be accessible? I am interested in using this for MIDI apps, but not MIDI over USB.

Thanks!

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Mon, 23 Jan 2012 04:48:00 +0000http://www.adafruit.com/blog/2012/01/20/announcing-the-flora-adafruits-wearable-electronics-platform-and-accessories/#comment-27302How are the “modules” connected to Flora?
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Sun, 22 Jan 2012 22:25:52 +0000http://www.adafruit.com/blog/2012/01/20/announcing-the-flora-adafruits-wearable-electronics-platform-and-accessories/#comment-27300I would like to design a simple mount that attaches FLORA to fabric. The mount could be a flat plastic ring the diameter of FLORA that could snap into the pad holes on the breakout using metal stand offs or clip type metal connectors. This could give way to daughter boards (much like shields on arduino) that could snap on the other side, punching through the fabric. This type of mounting strategy is potentially rugged and durable which would allow the removal of FLORA for flashing or modding not to mention washing the fabric.
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Sun, 22 Jan 2012 12:22:16 +0000http://www.adafruit.com/blog/2012/01/20/announcing-the-flora-adafruits-wearable-electronics-platform-and-accessories/#comment-27292I am incredibly excited about Flora! I already have a project planned-out for it around both Horse Riding (for show, imagine a rider’s coat and horses saddle glowing at different points and colors depending on what the rider/horse are doing) and a super-secret one that I hope to be the first to try and build with these Flora.

Once again my hat’s off to the folks at Adafruit, who not only have the best electronics store on the planet but also never fail to deliver on unique and interesting products that sets the imagination on fire and inspire us to build more.

Please make at least 25,000 units with at least 100,000 LEDs! We will be hungry for them.

Cheers and keep up the great work,

Kris

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Sun, 22 Jan 2012 12:18:02 +0000http://www.adafruit.com/blog/2012/01/20/announcing-the-flora-adafruits-wearable-electronics-platform-and-accessories/#comment-27291Is the connection to android using adk? Addition to Lufa? Or is it HID mouse and keyboard style?
]]>By: Roberthttps://blog.adafruit.com/2012/01/20/announcing-the-flora-adafruits-wearable-electronics-platform-and-accessories/comment-page-1/#comment-27289
Sun, 22 Jan 2012 09:31:38 +0000http://www.adafruit.com/blog/2012/01/20/announcing-the-flora-adafruits-wearable-electronics-platform-and-accessories/#comment-27289Any idea of the price of the LED pixels yet? And what controller chip?
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Sun, 22 Jan 2012 04:06:50 +0000http://www.adafruit.com/blog/2012/01/20/announcing-the-flora-adafruits-wearable-electronics-platform-and-accessories/#comment-27286Could you explain how you are controlling the addressable LED’s with 1 wire? Manchester encoding? Hats off for getting that to work with addressable RGB’s! Great show tonight.
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Sun, 22 Jan 2012 04:05:34 +0000http://www.adafruit.com/blog/2012/01/20/announcing-the-flora-adafruits-wearable-electronics-platform-and-accessories/#comment-27285I’ll take two! It looks very cool. I can think of several LED projects to use this on.
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Sat, 21 Jan 2012 19:54:23 +0000http://www.adafruit.com/blog/2012/01/20/announcing-the-flora-adafruits-wearable-electronics-platform-and-accessories/#comment-27279Can you give more details on the Bluetooth connection? Getting wireless communication is very interesting.
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Sat, 21 Jan 2012 17:48:46 +0000http://www.adafruit.com/blog/2012/01/20/announcing-the-flora-adafruits-wearable-electronics-platform-and-accessories/#comment-27276This is simply amazing .
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Sat, 21 Jan 2012 15:27:41 +0000http://www.adafruit.com/blog/2012/01/20/announcing-the-flora-adafruits-wearable-electronics-platform-and-accessories/#comment-27275I want to use something like this (or jeenode) for part of whole-house sensor network. This one could be good for addressable RGB light but not (yet) for integrated radio + PIR (almost not enough i/o to toggle SPI slaves). Please consider a few more pins and drop some redundant ones … still looking to balance price point, i/o pins, and form factor and this looks good for mid-range all-in-one unit.
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Sat, 21 Jan 2012 12:27:23 +0000http://www.adafruit.com/blog/2012/01/20/announcing-the-flora-adafruits-wearable-electronics-platform-and-accessories/#comment-27272Hey Adafruit,

Any chance I can get my hands on a schematic (even if it is not for public release yet) so that I can add in first class board support in LUFA? If so, please email me.

Cheers!
– Dean

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Sat, 21 Jan 2012 11:59:26 +0000http://www.adafruit.com/blog/2012/01/20/announcing-the-flora-adafruits-wearable-electronics-platform-and-accessories/#comment-27271Exciting stuff! Consider dropping the The when referring to your product. Just Flora is good and confident. Best of luck!
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Sat, 21 Jan 2012 10:44:35 +0000http://www.adafruit.com/blog/2012/01/20/announcing-the-flora-adafruits-wearable-electronics-platform-and-accessories/#comment-27269please look into bluetooth v4 low-energy for this product. it’d be perfect since its meant as an ultra-low-power sensor-net style of adhoc networking.
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Sat, 21 Jan 2012 07:24:30 +0000http://www.adafruit.com/blog/2012/01/20/announcing-the-flora-adafruits-wearable-electronics-platform-and-accessories/#comment-27265Is there somekind of accessory available to attach a stepper motor easily to FLORA? I would need to attach sensors and a stepper motor.
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Sat, 21 Jan 2012 06:04:02 +0000http://www.adafruit.com/blog/2012/01/20/announcing-the-flora-adafruits-wearable-electronics-platform-and-accessories/#comment-27262Just seeing if I still remembered BBROYGBVGW
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Sat, 21 Jan 2012 04:07:07 +0000http://www.adafruit.com/blog/2012/01/20/announcing-the-flora-adafruits-wearable-electronics-platform-and-accessories/#comment-27260In breaking out the pins that you did, did you also give access to the SPI bus? I could figure this out with some pinout-checking, but figured you’d know offhand. I saw the SDA/SCL pins for two-wire were there.
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Sat, 21 Jan 2012 02:42:25 +0000http://www.adafruit.com/blog/2012/01/20/announcing-the-flora-adafruits-wearable-electronics-platform-and-accessories/#comment-27257Congratulations! A Great product!

Please, please consider an XBee module.
Thanks.

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Sat, 21 Jan 2012 01:18:14 +0000http://www.adafruit.com/blog/2012/01/20/announcing-the-flora-adafruits-wearable-electronics-platform-and-accessories/#comment-27254Super, super awesome. I was JUST about to buy a Lilypad but this is going to be way better for my project — particularly with those addressable LEDs!

I’m a little mystified by the decision to include 2x GND, VBATT, and 3.3V pads when there are only 14 to begin with, though. Sewable access to another couple pins might be nice…

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Fri, 20 Jan 2012 20:19:52 +0000http://www.adafruit.com/blog/2012/01/20/announcing-the-flora-adafruits-wearable-electronics-platform-and-accessories/#comment-27247That’s a might fancy pick-n-place you got there, Limor. You might need to pick up the pace!
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Fri, 20 Jan 2012 18:58:21 +0000http://www.adafruit.com/blog/2012/01/20/announcing-the-flora-adafruits-wearable-electronics-platform-and-accessories/#comment-27244Wow, this is a great product! One of the first things that caught my eye was connections to the RGB’s. VCC, GND, and A10.. New LED driver IC? OK, so I have some learning to do..
Maybe it’s Adamagic..
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Fri, 20 Jan 2012 18:53:47 +0000http://www.adafruit.com/blog/2012/01/20/announcing-the-flora-adafruits-wearable-electronics-platform-and-accessories/#comment-27243Ooooo…. want!

Very interested in seeing the OLED module.

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Fri, 20 Jan 2012 17:47:38 +0000http://www.adafruit.com/blog/2012/01/20/announcing-the-flora-adafruits-wearable-electronics-platform-and-accessories/#comment-27242@alex – the board will be under $30 for sure, in fact likely a lot lower. we’re going to be making these in volume and we want to have the best low-cost platform there so our goal is to have the best quality and the best price.
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Fri, 20 Jan 2012 17:45:24 +0000http://www.adafruit.com/blog/2012/01/20/announcing-the-flora-adafruits-wearable-electronics-platform-and-accessories/#comment-27240Are you opposed to announcing an estimated price at this point?
]]>By: Pete Prodoehlhttps://blog.adafruit.com/2012/01/20/announcing-the-flora-adafruits-wearable-electronics-platform-and-accessories/comment-page-1/#comment-27238
Fri, 20 Jan 2012 17:17:33 +0000http://www.adafruit.com/blog/2012/01/20/announcing-the-flora-adafruits-wearable-electronics-platform-and-accessories/#comment-27238Totally awesome. The best selling point, IMHO: "The FLORA comes with Adafruit’s support, tutorials and projects."
]]>By: Martyhttps://blog.adafruit.com/2012/01/20/announcing-the-flora-adafruits-wearable-electronics-platform-and-accessories/comment-page-1/#comment-27236
Fri, 20 Jan 2012 17:13:09 +0000http://www.adafruit.com/blog/2012/01/20/announcing-the-flora-adafruits-wearable-electronics-platform-and-accessories/#comment-27236WOW! This is REALLY, REALLY COOL! Congratulation Ladyada! I wish you all the best with this great new product. Maybe you can show this to the clothing designers there in NYC and get them to incorporate this into some of their clothing designs or lines (Diana Eng?) to help Make (pun intended) this more mainstream. The future is bright with blinky Flora clothing, and accessories too!

It looks like they did their homework and found out all the problems people have had with LilyPads. Problems with power, connecting the FTDI backwards, the switch burning out, etc. Also they upgraded to the new AVRs everyone is starting to use and added a few more features.

I’m not sure “move away from the LilyPad” is the best terms. Really it’s the same idea, but 2.0 with bug fixes and new features. But they had to give it a new name obviously.

I’m more interested by those RGB modules that seem to be 1-wire controllable/addressable according to the picture. What IC is running them?